バス

バス · basu · JLPT N5 · noun

bus

バス — bus

🚌🛁 basu = English bus, bath and bass, all squeezed into one loanword

Japanese has no th sound and adds a vowel after a final consonant, so bus, bath and bass all become ba-su. Context tells them apart: a bus you ride, a bath (as in basu-rumu, bathroom), or bass in music and fishing.

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